How come every Shadow Isles champion is/was evil or neutral in life?

Big Lincoln·11/15/2015, 3:52:45 AM·1 votes·1,295 views

Just a random musing, but one that I find kind of interesting is how, as far as it seems, every champion that is prominent in the Shadow Isles was a force of malice (Mordekaiser Hecarim Thresh Evelynn ?), or at best, morally ambiguous Karthus Yorick. The closest thing to a good person is Kalista, but she was more or less just an obedient soldier. It seems that the Black Mist will happily engulf the souls of normal citizens if only to feed its need for a higher bodycount, but we don't see anyone who lived a life of good fallen to this

How come the Shadow Isles does not induct the souls of heroes into its ranks? People who were famous for their good deeds and heroic actions? I think it would be interesting to see such a champion; a hero who, to the outside world, seemed like their Superman, but nobody is perfect; something that allowed the Shadow Isles to corrupt him into another warrior in their army of death, to further demoralize those who suffer the plague of the Black Mist.

Just a short thought.

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Ehse Jaibie11/15/2015, 4:06:05 AM2 votes

Last I checked Maokai wasn't evil or neutral. I'll let you judge for yourself though...

Maokai was once a peaceful nature spirit dwelling in an idyllic forest, but the arrogance of humans brought an end to that life. Now he is a gnarled shadow of his former self, twisted by dark magics that defied the natural order of life and death. Infused with power he never asked for, the mighty treant has become a vengeful force of nature, sundering his enemies with wild magic and iron-hard limbs as he searches Valoran for the means to restore the Shadow Isles to its former glory.

Before the Shadow Isles became a land of death, the islands teemed with natural life and beauty. This was never truer than in the isles' sacred forest: a paradise of thriving trees and countless species, both animal and spirit alike. When the king of the Shadow Isles ordered his sorcerers to crack open the barrier separating life and death, the forest served as a well of power the magi drank deeply from.

The sorcerers' ritual succeeded in corrupting the cycle of life and unleashing forces they could not hope to contain. Vitality seeped from every living thing in the Shadow Isles: great trees withered into gnarled husks, people warped into twisted shades, and forest spirits became hollow wisps. Maokai, the strongest spirit of the sacred forest, watched in horror as his world crumbled and died around him. He fought to mend the wound in the world, but could not halt the destruction wrought by human folly. As the ghastly energies sought to overwhelm the great spirit, he made one last desperate attempt to preserve the life of the land. Maokai inhabited the ancient oak at the heart of the forest's spiritual power. There he gathered the essence of the isles into the tree as the corruption of undeath clawed hungrily at anything within reach. Fortified by boundless magic, Maokai could not be consumed entirely, though the spirit was not left unscathed.

Maokai, now saturated with the essences of life and death, became fused with the ancient oak and contorted into an abomination. For ages, pain and grief were the only companions the spirit had. His boughs grew heavy as he wept at the desolation of everything he had known and loved, and his roots tore from the earth as he raged at the reckless sorcerers that had ruined his home. But all was not lost. Maokai had preserved the last vital spark remaining in the Shadow Isles, and with it, the hope of returning life to the land.

Like moths to a flame, the tormented shades of the Shadow Isles were drawn to the living essence within Maokai. The spirit guarded the seed of life from the relentless undead, but Maokai knew he could not fend them off forever. He needed to escape the land of death his home had become, so he cast himself into the sea and trusted in nature to guide him towards a living land. There he hoped to find the means to cast out the forces of undeath and restore life to the Shadow Isles.

Maokai -- ''To defy the natural order has consequences.''

Ralanr11/15/2015, 6:29:09 AM2 votes

Thresh was good...was.

GreenLore11/15/2015, 4:41:32 PM2 votes

It actually looks like the black mist twists the mind of the people to different degrees. I guess that the minds of the people whose personality doesn't accept undeath are getting twisted until they are nothing more than rather mindless beings of the past and those wouldn't really fit as champions.

Kalista was a rather good person,she even refused to tell her king the location of the blessed isles,because she promised that she wouldn't tell anyone and because she feared what could happen,hecarims betrayal though changed her innerly in her last moments,which is why her spirit wasn't twisted that much(the absorption of more souls is actually what makes kalista loose her personality)

SEKAI11/15/2015, 5:36:37 AM1 votes

A rundown fallen continent (or kingdom) where the dead walks the land isn't really the place where you'd be looking for generic heroism you know.

It's pretty obvious that anyone who're from there ain't gonna have a positive outlook on their "life", if we can even call it that.